Physicians receive lower payments for taking care of Black and Hispanic patients than white patients, according to a new ...

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Dayanna Monroy joined Univision’s 24-hour news program as an anchor in June 2023. She has 12 years of experience in television and radio, previously working for Teleamazonas in Ecuador. There, Dayana ...

An estimated 3.5 million children a year undergo an investigation by a child welfare agency in the U.S. because of an allegation of poor treatment. The procedures followed by social workers who ...

Alcohol use has an outsize impact on public health in New Mexico. The state has far and away the highest rate of alcohol-involved deaths of anywhere in the country — three times the U.S. average — and ...

There are many things 17-year-olds cannot do in Texas. They can’t smoke. They can’t drink. They can’t buy bullets. And yet state lawmakers have agreed that they are mature enough to be criminally ...

Delorian Cole is a 10 year old with a rare disorder that causes her breasts to grow at a rapid, abnormal rate. Doctors at Children's Hospital Los Angeles prescribed monthly injections to stem the ...

It’s heat-dome summer, as high pressure and hot air park over themselves over large swaths of the country. As the planet warms, extreme heat waves are getting hotter, longer and more frequent. The ...

Bruce Japsen is a writer and blogger for Forbes on health care policy and business issues. He also contributes health care business and policy stories to the New York Times. Prior to his work for ...

Editor’s note: This investigative report was produced with support from the University of Southern California Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship. SALT LAKE CITY — Hundreds of ...

I got to know something about heart failure the hard way, by having it. I also happen to be a health journalist. So when I got the stunning diagnosis in 2003, I began researching this condition that ...

I’m not a religious person. But lately, having absorbed that I have Stage 4 lung cancer, I’ve wondered if it might make it easier to contemplate death if I were. Wouldn’t faith make leaving this Earth ...